Following the shrinking of Medicaid by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” Mehmet Oz, heart surgeon turned TV doctor turned Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says Americans will still be able to receive help — but that they need to stay healthy …
Read More »Dr. Oz Won't Commit to Protecting Medicaid
The Department of Health and Human Services is already headed by a vaccine skeptic, and the Trump administration would like to install a TV doctor to run the nation’s most vital health care systems. Dr. Mehmet Oz sat today for a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee to discuss his …
Read More »Dr. Oz Could Decide If Pregnant Patients Get Emergency Care in Anti-Abortion States
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former heart surgeon who rose to prominence dispensing dubious medical advice on TV, is expected to appear before the Senate’s Committee on Finance this month for hearings on his nomination to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Donald Trump. CMS oversees Medicare …
Read More »How RFK Jr. and His Underlings Will Make America Sick Again
As Ranking Member of both the House Appropriations Committee and of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Subcommittee, I oversee funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest department in the U.S. government. This pillar of our government administers the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency that provides health …
Read More »Trump Taps Dr. Oz to Take Control of Medicare and Medicaid
Dr. Mehmet Oz’s years of making dubious medical claims on his daytime talk show weren’t enough to win him a Senate seat in 2022. But for Donald Trump, they’re enough to qualify him to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which provides healthcare to over 160 million …
Read More »Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers
In his run for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, Mehmet “Dr.” Oz has tried to convince voters that — despite his close ties to Donald Trump — he’s moderate enough to represent their battleground state. Most notably, while the former president falsely insists the 2020 election was stolen, Oz has …
Read More »Trump Plans to Challenge the 2022 Elections — Starting in Philly
In early September, Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do something about it. “During our briefing, he was concerned that …
Read More »'SNL': Weekend Update on Herschel Walker Fundraising Off Abortion Scandal: Raising Money, But Not Kids
Saturday Night Live tackled Herschel Walker’s abortion scandal, President Joe Biden’s marijuana pardons and Kanye West’s White Lives Matter controversy in a packed Weekend Update segment. “The midterms are only a month away, and is it just me or are some candidates trying to lose?” co-anchor Colin Jost asked. Jost …
Read More »Celebrity Rabbi Turns on Dr. Oz, Calls Campaign 'A Waste' in Leaked Emails
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach had for years encouraged his dear friend, Mehmet “Dr.” Oz, to run for office, spending hours talking about their shared desire for a unifying, “values-based campaign,” and what an Oz-led version of that would look like. Now, Oz is taking his old friend’s advice and running for …
Read More »Leaked Audio: Dr. Oz's Quack Science Extends to Smell-Based Sex Advice
Mehmet Oz, the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, offered up some questionable science in 2014 on sex, smell, and the genetic consequences of incest, according to audio unearthed by Jezebel. During an interview with The Breakfast Club morning radio show, Oz answered a caller’s question about an …
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